Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

A selective list of online literary criticism on the eighteenth-century English poet, satirist, translator, editor, and literary critic Alexander Pope, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars and articles published in reviewed sources

"Augustan ideas about art and human moral nature." Compares Horace's Ars Poetica (in Latin) and Boileau's Art poétique (in French) with Pope's Essay on Criticism. The site includes a special Latin dictionary with definitions keyed to the words included in the selections. From a class by W. C. Dowling, at Rutgers Univ.